Gegli news - 130 schools have not improved for more than a decade, Ofsted report finds

Gegli news - 130 schools have not improved for more than a decade, Ofsted report finds - 12/13/2017 1:32:40 PM 1:32:40 PM 

The report reveals 80 primary schools and 50 secondaries inspected this year have not been rated good at any point since 2005.

 Hundreds of underperforming schools are continuing to fail pupils despite targeted investment and attention, a report by the new chief inspector of schools has revealed.

The Ofsted Annual Report has shown that 90% of primaries and 79% of secondary schools are now rated as good or outstanding.

But of around 20,000 schools, 500 of those for children aged four to 11 and 200 for over-11s have required improvement at their last two inspections.

Chief schools inspector Amanda Spielman said the time had come to focus on what needs to be done to make a change.

She said: "What we're seeing is that an enormous amount of help has been pointed at these schools in different ways but somehow it doesn't seem to be hitting the spot, it's not necessarily getting through and changing what happens in the workplace.

"We shouldn't cheat any child out of the future they could and should be aiming for."

A core of 80 primary schools and 50 secondaries inspected this year have not been rated good at any point since 2005.

They often share characteristics such as unstable leadership, poor staff retention and recruitment difficulties and many also have a high proportion of white British pupils from low-income backgrounds and children with special educational needs.

It is often up to places like Rodney House School in Manchester to step in and take children who have been excluded from mainstream education.

The school is rated outstanding for the education it provides its 60 pupils in need of specialist support.

Headteacher Nuala Finegan said: "We often have to pick up on failings from mainstream schools where children's placements have failed, where children haven't done so well.

"They may have been on short-term or part-time placements in mainstream schools which is unacceptable really.

"Now I'm not saying we're perfect and we can solve all issues, however we are much more flexible in the way we approach things like behaviour."

Ofsted also raises concerns about a growing number of highly conservative Christian, Jewish or Muslim faith schools failing to be rated as good.

In some cases premises are unsafe or squalid and in extreme cases children are being educated in illegal and unregistered settings.

Secure children's homes, however, are doing well but outcomes for those in young offenders' institutions are at times extremely poor.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb says that 1.9 million more children are now being taught in schools rated good or outstanding than in 2010 but accepts "there is more to do to tackle consistent underperformance".